Automation Articles for Manufacturers and Engineers

NORD DRIVESYSTEMS will exhibit at Pack Expo 2026, highlighting their food- and washdown-compliant drives, highly configurable gear unit options, high-efficiency electric motors, variable frequency drives and plug-and-play control systems. matched to specific application requirements. Their complete solutions for the packaging industry will be on display in Booth N-4924 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL.

CBS ArcSafe, a manufacturer of remote racking and switching solutions for low- and medium-voltage switchgear, introduces the RRS-3 VY Toshiba. The remote racking system lets technicians operate Toshiba VY-30M25A circuit breakers (rotary racking only) from up to 300 feet away, putting them safely outside the arc flash boundary.

Innodisk announced the launch of a new line of memory cards intended for edge AI and other high-end applications. The DDR5 8000 RDIMM memory module’s most important statistics already come in its name: It’s a DDR5 RDIMM chip capable of transfer speeds of 8000 MT/s, putting it close to the current upper limit for raw power in the memory field.

Comau has designed and validated an order preparation solution tested within Decathlon’s e-commerce fulfillment operations as part of Masterly, a European initiative designed to accelerate the transition from traditional mass production to highly flexible, customized manufacturing systems. The system leverages Comau’s MyCo collaborative robot with a ROS2-based software architecture and integrates intelligent sensors and an advanced modular gripper to autonomously manage picking, handling, and palletizing tasks across variable product flows.